Hooded Merganser (Female)

Comments good & bad welcome

Canon 600mm Canon 1D MarkIII Shot @ f4.0 Speed 3200 ISO 800

Fantastic photo!

Magnificent capture! Love it!

 

Kathy

 

Another great beauty with that famous low viewpoint, warm light and excellent dof! :)

Very good timing , as always excellent details and colors! Congrats!

Superb background and the splash is a nice touch.

Christopher, Wonderful photo, Great capture, I enjoy waterfowl photos and know how hard they are to get while in action ( that is why I do not have many). Great job. Take care.

Simply superb. Compliments for this fine effort and greetings.-Jim

I love the colours, I love the sharpness, and I appeciate and know how difficult it is to capture. My only gripe would be composition. I"m not sure if you have cropped or not but if possible I would put the duck further to the left leading our eye to the right in the direction of travel. And perhaps crop a fraction off the bottom. Great capture though.

perfecta 7/7 a.

You've done it again. Perfect image what I like the most is how young the subject it. You don't see that often.

Regards

Alex

Another tremendous shot, Chris! Great colors and clarity. I like the blurred reflection of the bird.

 

Best regards,

 

Dick

Marty I truly appreciate your critique.I will have to take a look at the original image.As I recall I was thinking the same thing about more space in front but also thought the splashes were interesting.And a big thanks to everyone else for your time (comments) and yes this was not an easy shot to get when these guys take off they are extremely fast.

Very nice work, Christopher!

Extremely beautiful!

Excellent!

Another beautiful take off, even the hair on his head is in the wind due to the speed :)

I love the surrounding colours, green and blue and the water splash!

I like it as is, like you, I think that the trail is necessary to the composition.

 

Cheers!

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